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Desperate Journey: wartime cliches overwhelm this extraordinary true account

Desperate Journey: wartime cliches overwhelm this extraordinary true account

Despite handsome production design, almost nothing in Freddie’s story has a ring of authenticity.

27.11.2025 4

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Barry Langford

The Mastermind: this art theft heist offers a compassionate character study

The Mastermind is a fascinating companion piece to Paul Thomas Anderson’s smash hit, One Battle After Another.

22.10.2025 3

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Jurassic World Rebirth has everything a Jurassic film should – except the wonder

Thirty-two years, six Jurassic iterations and countless monstrous digital apparitions later, the wow factor is a distant memory.

02.07.2025 5

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New Dietrich Bonhoeffer biopic is a grossly misleading portrait of the anti-Nazi  dissident

Again and again, Bonhoeffer substitutes conventionalised melodrama for difficult history.

07.03.2025 3

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How Holocaust films are changing as we lose the survivor generation

Several films have tackled the topic of Holocaust memory in recent years, including 2025 Oscar nominees The Brutalist and A Real Pain.

03.03.2025 3

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September 5: tense and taut drama vividly recreates the Munich massacre

Running just 94 minutes, the drama unfolds almost entirely within the cramped, sweaty confines of the ABC control room.

05.02.2025 5

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A Real Pain is a subtle but powerful exploration of remembrance culture and personal trauma

A Real Pain tackles the heavy subject matter of collective trauma with curiosity and humour.

09.01.2025 6

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Joker: Folie à Deux is relentlessly claustrophobic – and castigates its fans at every turn

Todd Phillips’ 2017 blockbuster Joker was a standalone origin story for the DC Universe’s most celebrated super-villain, The Joker, who has been...

04.10.2024 4

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Barry Langford